PORTSMOUTH — Several roads will be temporarily closed Saturday, Oct. 3, for the Portsmouth High School Homecoming Parade.

Coggeshall Farm Museum is hosting Bristol Expedition Reenactment Weekend this Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 3 and 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Visitors can step back in time to see what life …

After last weekend’s nor’easter postponed its scheduled season finale, Newport Polo will saddle up one more time this Saturday, Oct. 3 at 4 p.m., bringing its historic 150th Diamond Jubilee …

Supporters of a ballot initiative that would approve $55 million in state borrowing to various environmental, climate resiliency, and open space initiatives gathered at the Looff Carousel in Riverside on Monday.

Sakonnet Vineyard will host its second annual Harvest Festival this weekend. The two-day event includes family-friendly activities, with live music, wine tastings, food, vineyard tours, and …

The United States Department of Agriculture has pledged $1 million in grants to help Tiverton deal with what one USDA official on Monday called “the biggest [PFAS] problem in the history of the …

The Tiverton Land Trust is bringing back a popular tradition with the return of its Country Day at Pardon Gray, a beloved community event that was held for approximately 15 years before going on …

Norman Bird Sanctuary hosts its Harvest Fair for two days this weekend. Families can expect to find pony rides, pumpkins painting, face painting, field games, a mud pit, train rides, a grease pole …

The Jack-o-Lantern Spectacular returns to Roger Williams Park in Providence, beginning this weekend. This year’s theme celebrates the art of the pun, with thousands of hand-carved pumpkins bringing …

Tautog (or Blackfish) are a great eating fish with a grey/white delicate meat. Rhode Island and Massachusetts have the same trophy fish regulation. Anglers are allowed just one trophy fish, 21” or …

PORTSMOUTH — A Little Compton aquaculturist is seeking state approval for a 3-acre shellfish farm in the Sakonnet River off Portsmouth, where he proposes raising Eastern oysters and bay scallops …

In the final paragraph of her September 17 letter to the editor , Bonnie Phinney asked why Republican candidates’ lawn signs appearing throughout Little Compton do not identify their political …

A Little Compton man charged this summer with cutting trees and other vegetation from a center median at Main and Crandall roads in Adamsville pleaded no contest to the charge against him Friday. …

To the editor: Portsmouth voters — please vote yes on Question 6 to approve the town’s authority to borrow in support of school capital projects. The middle school roof is in critical …

There is a strange measure of success that many desirable communities eventually confront. People want to live there. Home values rise. Neighborhoods become more sought after. A house bought decades …

PROVIDENCE — State agencies and utility crews are preparing for a nor’easter expected to bring heavy rain and strong winds to Rhode Island, with officials warning residents to be ready for …

Avid Adamsville surfer Reed Rowan, 22, navigated the heavy in-coming surf at South Shore Beach as the tide entered with the power of the strengthening nor'easter that is making it's way up the …

James Harrington, 24, has lived in Little Compton his entire life. He would like to stay there. Harrington, who joined the Little Compton Affordable Housing Trust last year, is among the …

Washed out last week and re-scheduled for this week, Bristol PorchFest brings local bands and musicians to neighbors’ porches for a free community event this Sunday, Sept. 27. Join the Bristol …

Newport Live presents The Dead Tongues this Friday, Sept. 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Great Friends Meeting House in Newport. Folk rock singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Gustafson has …

Audrain Automobile Museum is hosting Cars & Coffee this Sunday, Sept. 27, from 9 to 11 a.m. at Newport Craft Brewing. These morning events often attract hundreds of cars. Admission is free.  …

PORTSMOUTH — Walk into parts of Portsmouth Middle School and there is no mistaking the decade in which it was built. The school opened around 1970, and some of it still looks very much the part.

Spotted lanternflies are now established to some degree in all five Rhode Island counties, and state officials are seeing both growing populations in the hardest-hit areas and signs that the invasive …

Bristol’s Stone Church Coffeehouse at the First Congregational Church welcomes popular folk singer/songwriters, Chris and Meredith Thompson this Saturday. The Thompsons are powerful performers with …